Teaching Objectives: This training conference is intended for members of domestic violence teams who are recipients of the Grants to Encourage Arrest or RURAL Grants, including police officers, dispatchers, victim advocates, probation officers, prosecutors, batterer intervention program staff, and child welfare workers, faith leaders, health care workers, mental health and substance abuse providers. The purpose of Abusers 201 is provide enhanced training about abusers and abuser intervention programs to interdisciplinary teams to help them to better respond to violence against women, including cases involving sexual assault and stalking. Abusers 201 is a ‘one-stop’ training seminar about abusers and abuser interventions, including emerging models for promoting abuser accountability in the criminal justice system and the community.
Training Faculty: The conference advisors and training faculty include Scott Miller and Graham Barnes of the Domestic Abuse and Intervention Project, David Adams, Ted German and Susan Cayouette of Emerge, Juan Carlos Arean and Julia Perilla of Casa Esperanza, Jim Henderson and Glenna Tinney of the Battered Women’s Justice Project, Ed Gondolf of the Mid Atlantic Addictions Training Institute, Etiony Aldarondo of the University of Miami-Coral Gables, Lt. David Thomas of the Division of Public Safety Leadership at Johns Hopkins University, Rhonda Martinson of Aequitas, Judge Douglas Miles of Colorado Springs, Oliver Williams of Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community, David Garvin and Jeffrey Cape of Alternatives to Violent Aggression, Lonna Davis of Futures Without Violence, Melissa Scaia of Advocates for Family Peace, Debby Tucker of the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, and several others who are yet to be identified. There will be a wide range of experienced Guest Speakers to address the topics listed below.
Training Agenda:rkshop, breakout or plenary session format:
- Do Abusers Change? Overview and Analysis of BIP Outcome Findings
- Model Program Practices in Promoting Abuser Engagement and Accountability
- Profiles of Abusers (common traits and myths)
- Abusers Who Kill: Profiles, Motives and Implications for Risk Assessment
- Police Interviewing of Suspected Abusers and Identifying the Primary Aggressor
- Assessing Abusers in the Child Welfare System
- Risk Assessment for Abusers Attending BIPs
- Faith Community Responses to Abusers
- Abuser Interventions for Active Duty Military and Veterans
- Working with GLBT Abusers
- Collaborations between Community-Based Victim Advocacy Programs and Batterer Intervention Programs
- Community Prevention: Recruiting and Engaging Men to Join the Cause
- Women Who Use Violence: Assessment and Treatment ModelsØØ Women Who Use Violence: Assessment and Treatment Models
If you have questions about workshop content, call or e-mail David Adams at EMERGE:
(617) 547-9879 or dadams9@aol.com
This training conference is limited to 115 participants, so register early!
The registration cut-off date is Friday, October 18, 2013, or whenever registration slots are filled.
Your registration will be automatically confirmed via a confirmation email and will include hotel reservation information. Confirmation email comes from noreply@bwjp.org. Check your junk mail!!
Cancellations and name changes must be made in writing. Remember; do not make travel arrangements until your registration is confirmed.
Registration:
- GTEAP Grantees must use their OVW-issued grant number to register for this training.
- RURAL Grantees must use this pseudo grant number to register: 2010 WEAX 1933.